Call Me Kate

No, actually, i want cables and not bluetooth, i don't want touchscreens, i want buttons and knobs, i want to be able to take the battery out of my phone, i want to charge my phone and plug in head phones at the same time, i want a cd drive in my laptop and not have to buy an external drive, i want a car without a display, i want to turn on the lights with a switch not with my voice, i want to have a paper cinema ticket not a QR code, i want to listen to illegally burned music on a 00s cd player, i want to watch movies that i actually own, i want to read news once a day on paper, i want to aimlessly flick through magazines and not doomscroll on social media, i want to write emails and not talk to chatbots, i want to own stuff without hundreds of digital subscriptions, i want

you gotta read, you gotta write, you gotta draw, you gotta watch films and shows. there is literally NO time to be employed

Having a job is an awesome way to stay hydrated because you get so bored you start drinking water just for a little excitement

they're trying to get me to do something called ""my job"" instead of reading about medieval english poaching laws

The older i get the more i understand why some people become obsessed with privacy, not because they’re hiding something, but because being constantly perceived starts to feel spiritually exhausting.

hated when ppl said "wow i can't even draw a stick figure" when they learn i draw but then i realized i do the same thing at ppl who are good at math so i'm really no better than them. this realization has stopped this knee-jerk reaction of disdain when it happens at me, and has basically completely stopped me from doing it in turn at others. the grace feels a lot better than the rage or the shame. fwiw

yesterday a man watched me drawing, and a few minutes later he asked about it and whether I’d been doing it for long. i usually get the stick figure reaction, but he shared that he really liked drawing when he was younger and had always wanted to draw comics, but ended up leaning into sports. as an adult he said he still doodles in margins and planned to start drawing again in earnest when he retired. 🥹

The first rule of fandom is have fun. The second rule of fandom is find an enabler and become an enabler. Yes you should write that fic. What if it was even hornier? What if it was angstier? What if you wrote it just for me?

so many amazing words in the english language. you have clandestine and precarious and serendipity and iconoclast and then you also have staunch and sludge and slurp and smudge

99% of queer discourse stops right before they define the true difference between bisexual and pansexual!

I like when construction workers spray paint their strange sigils on the pavement